Follow live updates as NASA's Artemis II crew members circle the moon in the Orion spacecraft. The astronauts lifted off last week and are expected to come within 4,070 miles of the lunar surface.

The Artemis II mission is a critical step toward NASA’s goal of returning astronauts to the moon, with a potential landing targeted as early as 2028. NASA is expected to provide live coverage of the historic flyby. Here’s how to watch and what to expect while you tune in.

The mission is expected to last about 10 days, with the crew reaching the moon's vicinity on around day five or six before returning to Earth.

After a lunar fly-by Monday, the Artemis II crew will start to make their journey home, where they will splash down off the California coast.

The four astronauts concluded a historic journey around the lunar far side that included their greatest distance from the planet. “We will always choose Earth,” Christina Koch said in words to humanity after emerging from a communications blackout.

The Artemis II mission has passed the two-thirds mark on its journey to the Moon. The crew of four astronauts are practicing manual control of the Orion spacecraft ahead of their historic lunar flyby,